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Subject: Re: ahc reports lots of pci parity errors
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Hi!

> It starts going havoc if there are more than 4 PCI cards inserted. If
> the fifth card is a PCI card, I get lots of errors and even lockups
> really soon, if the fifth card is an ISA card, i get less errors and
> I've only encountered one lockup until now.

On lot of motherboards I've seen some PCI slots share a single 
interrupt. I don't know if this is the case with your motherboard, but 
if it is then I can certainly imagine it causing problems.
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